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Monday, April 9, 2012

A Plaza Divided

A Plaza Dvided"A Deal of corporate vision"

Stories containing an in depth look at organized crime in Tijuana, are seldom without a quote from Victor Clark Alfaro, anthropologist and director of the Bi national Center for Human Rights. Alfaro, is considered an expert in cross border crime and violence, as it relates to cartel activity in Tijuana and San Diego, California. For many years his area of expertise was the Arellano Felix cartel, (CAF), whom were the exclusive owners of the Tijuana plaza, since their arrival in the mid 1980's. The 25 year sentence handed down to the Arellano Felix patriarch, Benjamen Arellano last week in San Diego, was symbolic of the end of an era, as well as the beginning of a new one.

In an interview with AFN Tijuana, Alfaro discusses this new era, and what it means for Tijuana, past, present, and future. Alfaro contends that the plaza is now shared, by two groups, who have come to an (narco) 'enterprise agreement', to work in the city, without competition, or violence from on another. According to Alfaro, the Sinaloa cartel started making it's way into the city, about five years ago, roughly 2007. This makes sense, considering Javier Francisco Arellano, and his lieutenants, were arrested in international waters, and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. After this, the reins were passed to Fernando Sanchez Arellano, which caused a rift in the cartel, which wouldn't fully be recognized until 2008, Tijuana's bloodiest year. In the midst of this, the Sinaloa cartel began infiltrating the city, by purchasing real estate, and relationships with the authorities.

Alfaro discusses that the pact reached by Fernando Sanchez Arellano, and the Sinaloa cartel, is to share the square, and work in accordance, or without interference, to one another. Small groups, consolidated under Sanchez Arellano, or Sinaloa, are now the preferred way to operate, as opposed to the heavy top down hierarchy of earlier years. The pact, or agreement, must include members of the authorities and politicans of all levels, in the city. Alfaro does not exclude branches of the Mexican military from this analysis, ""I do not have doubt that where there is illegal activity it is because there has to be a joint network of corruption with officials in the city"

The Sinaloa and CAF cells are working in agreement, a relationship of business and convenience, to avoid bloodshed, and increase profits for all. But, Tijuana is not an 'open plaza', La Familia Michoancan, cells have been detected and stopped, and further investigation indicated they were paying taxes to operate in the city. Los Zetas, have not been detected in the city, but Alfaro indicates, their presence would not be welcome, due to the conflict between the two.

The details of this agreement are not known, mostly experts, or those interested, can make educated guesses, and assumptions. Murders and kidnappings sometimes appear to paint a picture of impending conflict, a Sinaloa cell will be alleged to be fighting an Arellano cell, but then the calm will resume, the violence and blood washes away, and the uneasy tranquility will continue.

Alfaro is not optimistic about the future of this agreement, and is concerned that violence will again reign in the city. Violence, is now down, subdued even, but Alfaro cautions against too much comfort from those facts, stating that high impact violence is down, but in the residential, impoverished neighborhoods, the violence and murders continue. Though, they lack the gruesome 'flair', of other violence stricken areas of Mexico, and years previous in Tijuana.

"When you say that violence has declined, I agree but only in the residential area, there is an apparent calm, but I think we're sitting on a volcano because these groups have made arrangements for reasons of ambition or control found in other countries, (they) are very fragile agreements. For me at any time, the volcano can explode"

Sources AFN Tijuana (The translations for the quotes don't always translate right, so I paraphrased a little, regarding the quotes of Victor Clark.

It still catches my attention that some countrys are dominated by crime, that drugs are a main steam issue, that a much larger proportion of people in many countrys participate in criminal activitys, that the social fabric of the western world is in such decline? What does the future hold??

Sinaloa has been in control of the plaza and Baja for a few years now. AFO is no longer significant in any way in Tijuana. El Ing is a joke amongst his own people let alone the bigger drug trafficking organizations.

This sounds almost as if it was written in stone. I seen some post like don't hold your breath but if there is a chance for peace it may never come again. I mean I think we can all agree that it is very sad all that has happened but some wars cant be won, especially wars driven by Greed. There is more Power and Prosperity in being United. By any means.

THIS IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE TRUTH cds PAY DERECHO DE PISO EVIDENCE PROVES IN THE FACT THAT IF cds IS SO POWERFUL WHY NOT REMOVE LA GRAN FAMILIA INSTEAD OF SHARING THE MOST PROFITABLE BORDER IN THE DRUG WORLD IF EL CAF IS WEAKEND AND FINISHED WHY NOT REMOVED THEM WHY MAKE A DEAL THAT MAKES LA GRAN FAMILIA RICHER THAN THEY WERE BEFORE WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT AND TO TOP IT OFF EL CAF HAS VERY POWERFUL TIES TO LOS GRAN ZETAS AND LOS BELTRAN AND EL SENOR CARILLO FUENTES YEAH cds ARE SO POWERFUL THEY COULDNT REMOVE THE WEAKER CARTEL AND MAKE A DEAL THIS DOESNT EVEN MAKE ANY FUCKEN SENCE

BYE THE WAY LA FAMILIA MICHOACANA HAS PERMISSION TO WORK IN BAJA AND THEY PAY PISO AND THEY ARE VERY USEFULL IN THERE CRAFT AND CAUSE NO TROUBLE THEY EVEN ARE LARGE IN NUMBERS AND LET EL CAF THE EXACT AMOUNT THERE PRODUCING AND THEY LAY LOW SO WERE THE FUCK MR ALFARO DID YOU GET THIS RETARDED INFORMATION WHEN YOU PRINT THIS KIND OF INTELL PEOPLE GET KILLED CAUSE OF UNDECATED POST LIKE THIS

I'd say it's safe, but use a lot of caution, people are definitely still going there, (Hong Kong, Adelitas, the usual)

I don't think Inge is considered weak by his people, did you see the Zeta article in December, listing the cells loyal to him in Tijuana? There was at least 15. Or, read the indictment filed in San Diego in 2010, with 43 defendants in his service?

They would make the deal, because it's in their mutual interests not to fight.

GENTE DE TIJUANA It is funny how you say you belong to La Gran Familia and here you are saying that El CAF has powerful ties to Los Zetas, Los Beltranes and Los Carrillo Fuentes. How can that be? When they are allowing loads from Sinaloa and La Familia Michoacana to reach the U.S.

By the way, please stop with your killing bull shit, is getting old. You keep on saying that you will kill this and you will kill that and blah blah blah.

I dont think cds pays the caf chapo takes it as offensive when they ask him for that its what happened in juarez vicente carrillo told the cds they had to pay to use the juarez plaza thars what started the war i think in tijuana cds and caf made the agreement to share the tijuana plaza with cds not having to pay caf they both have the right of passage

april 10 2012 10:51 anonima once again why you so afraid to put youre name you fucken cowards HAVE THE BALLS TO BE WHO YOU ARE OR ARE YOU EMBARASSED OF WHAT YOU ARE ON THE LOADS THAT YOURE TALKING ABOUT YOU DUMB FUCK THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE THE 80'S WHEN ALL THEM EXECUTIONS HAPPEN WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERENT PAYING A TOLL YOU FUCKEN MORAN MY NAME IS EMILIANO BRISENO FELIX ME DICEN EL 5-7 LLA ME PRESENTE YO PENDEJO COMO TE LLAMAS TU PAREJITA Y CHINGA TU MADRE OH QUIEN SEA DEL CAF SON GENTE DE TIJUANA SO MIDE TUS PALABRAS MUY BIEN CHIQUITA AQUI MANDA LA GRAN FAMILIA Y EL SENOR AQUI ESTA Y EL CAF SIGUE CRECIENDO SO CHINGATU PUTA PERRA WANGOTA MADRE

RAZA GE TIJUANA I don't know why you like to talk to much shit, everyone know how you people work, you always hunt people in groups, never one on one, so who is the coward? About your name (EMILIANO BRISENO FELIX), who you think you are lying to? I have been reading your bull shit since March 2011 Mario Alejandro aka Tiburon.

ALL YOU CATS ARE HILARIOUS. AS I STAND IN MY BALCONY IN SIDRO SMOKING A BLUNT OVERLOOKING EL CHARCO (TIJUANA) TO ME ALL YOU GUYS ARE NONSENSE. SPEAKING ON WHAT YOU READ ONLINE IS BEING AN OPINION BELIEVER. LET'S GET OFFICIAL . HAVING A CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER IN THE TIJUANA JUDICIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO HAS THE FINAL WORD AND KNOWS IMPORTANT PEOPLE FROM EVERY ANGLE OF NOT ONLY TIJUANA BUT FROM EL PUERTO TO MEXICALI THATS CALLED STEP INTO MY OFFICE.A MAFIA EMPIRE THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE 80s AND INFILTRATED THE CRIMINAL ROOTS OF LA BAJA AND CALI, INVESTED STACKS IN LEGITIMATE HIGH END BUSINESSES SCATTERED NEXT TO YOU, BUT MOST IMPORTANT BENJAMIN AND RAMON MADE SURE THEY LEFT EDUCATED ALUMNIS FROM THAT SCHOOL OF HARDKNOCKS . THESE CAF WISE GUYS WALK AMONGST YOU IN THE STREET AND YOU DO NOT NOTICE. THE FAMILY STILL GIVES ORDERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER. MANY IMPORTANT PEOPLE FROM TGE COMPANY NEVER DIED OR GOT ARRESTED BUT RELEASED. THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT YOUR ORDINARY "QUE PEDO PAREJA" KIND OF MEN. THESE ARE CONTEMPORARY MODERN DAY GANGSTERS.. THIS IS NOT MEDIA SHIT OR THE ZETA PAPER CONTRADICTING ITSELF IN EVERY OTHER EDITION. BESIDES LACKING STREET PROFESSIONALISM, ALL YOU DUDES TALKING OUT OF YOUR UNKNOWN MOUTH DO NOT KNOW SHIT BUT JUST SAY BIASED STUPID OPINIONS. I'M GOING BACK INSIDE MY APARTMENT.

EMILIANO BRISENO FELIX .Saludos senore,for not being a bitch like a lot who run their mouth,and speak on things that they really don't know about.Anyway,it makes a change,someone throwin their colors up with no shame or guilt,fuck em all.Ten cuidado hermano.